How Can You Attract Butterflies?
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Butterflies can be attracted to your garden by a variety of methods including planting brightly coloured flowers and bushes, providing food in the form of rotten fruit or by providing other places where they will congregate.
Flowers and Bushes
Allow a part of your garden to grow wild. Let the grass grow and scatter wildflower seed throughout the area. Plant brightly coloured flowers around the edge of the wild are. Single flowers are better than double blooms and mix up the colours. Butterflies like different colours, some will be attracted to yellow, orange and red others will prefer blue, white or purple. Read more
Hummingbird Nectar Recipe
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Hanging a hummingbird feeder in your garden or on your patio will attract these lovely birds. In addition you could plant clematis, phlox, busy lizzies (impatiens), fuchsias, hollyhocks or hibiscus as they will also attract hummingbirds.
Hummingbird nectar is easy to make just follow the instructions below. Read more
Grow Strawberries in Strawberry Pots
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Strawberry pots are urn shaped with pockets for planting the strawberries and usually made from attractive red terracotta. Planting a strawberry pot is easy and you’ll soon have an attractive feature for your garden as well as delicious strawberries. You can also grow herbs or other flowering plants, such as nasturtiums, in a strawberry pot but it’s best to use hanging plants that don’t mind their roots being cramped in the pot.
Playful Birds Atop A Strawberry Pot : click for details
You can mix flowering plants for an attractive effect but check that they require about the same conditions of water, sun and soil type first.